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Deinosuchus (/ ˌ d aɪ n ə ˈ sj uː k ə s /) is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, related to modern alligators and caimans, that lived 82 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period.
Based on the effects of a tsunami that hit Japan, a tsunami 20 m (66 ft) probably hit the Chilean coast in AD 1420, which swept boulders inland as if they were pebbles. [5] The 1420 Caldera earthquake generated tsunamis reaching Japan. [6] In the sea off of the Atacama near Caldera, on April 11, 1819, there was a magnitude 8.5 earthquake.
Prehistoric tsunamis are tsunamis and so-called "megatsunamis" that occurred before recorded history. The events have been identified through oral tradition and/or geological evidence. Those events that have been identified through contemporary records are listed as historic tsunamis .
The researchers identified a series of 9-inch-long prints as belonging to an ancient crocodylomorph, a group that includes living crocodilians (alligators, crocodiles, and other similarly-sized ...
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Today's crocodiles may seem fearsome, but an even bigger and predatory version of the animal is believed to have lived on Earth about 130 million years ago. A new study documents the discovery of ...
[1] [2] Thucydides inquired into its causes, and concluded that the tsunami must have been caused by an earthquake. [3] He was thus historically the first known to correctly interpret the cause of a tsunami as a preceding geological event. [4] Herodotus, in contrast, had attributed the Potidaea tsunami to the divine wrath of Poseidon. [5]
A Brazilian scientist has identified fossils of a small crocodile-like reptile that lived during the Triassic Period several million years before the first dinosaurs. The fossils of the predator ...